SKU: BA.BVK02494
Composed by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Edited by
Christoph Wolff and
Martina Rebmann. This
edition: facsimile.
Linen. Autograph:
Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin - Preußischer
Kulturbesitz. Facsimile.
BWV 244. 178/27 pages.
Baerenreiter Verlag
#BVK02494_00. Published
by Baerenreiter Verlag
(BA.BVK02494).
ISBN
9783761824948. 37.5 x
24.5 cm inches. Text
Language: English,
German. Preface: Barbara
Schneider-Kempf.
â
€œI have never
experienced such silence
or seen an audience moved
in this way.†Felix
Mendelssohn
Bartholdy
Up to
the present day there has
scarcely been a work in
the history of music
which has fascinated
listeners and performers
more than Bach’s
“St Matthew
Passionâ€.
Originally composed for
Vespers on Good Friday,
and even longer in
duration than the
“St John
Passionâ€, it
reconstructs the story of
Christ’s Passion
with immense musical,
emotional and spiritual
intensity.
And so,
this monumental and
complex composition has
come to rank amongst the
high points of Western
culture. For good reason
the
“rediscoveryâ€
of Johann Sebastian
Bach’s music began
in 1829 with the
performance of this work
by Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy and the Berlin
Singakademie.
The
autograph manuscript is
regarded as one of
Bach’s most
beautiful – the
fair copy demonstrates
the importance he
attached to the careful
preservation of the work
for posterity. A further
spezial feature is the
coloured ink with which
he wrote the biblical
text and the music of the
chorale “O Lamm
Gottes,
unschuldigâ€.
This facsimile edition
reproduces the autograph
score of the “St
Matthew Passionâ€
for the first time in
high-quality colour
printing. The Bach
specialist Christoph
Wolff introduces the
background to the
work’s composition
and the characteristics
of the
manuscript.
Barbar
a Schneider-Kempf and
Martina Rebmann
(Staatsbibliothek zu
Berlin) provide further
details regarding the
history of the autograph
manuscript.
Passion Feat
